Dar es Salaam. The Police have advised bodaboda riders to end their daily operations around 11pm as a precaution against increasing incidents of theft, kidnapping and killings targetting motorcycle taxi drivers by unsuspected clients.
Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police commander Simon Sirro made the appeal yesterday noting that they were holding over 1,200 bodaboda taxi drivers who face various allegations including owning stolen motorbikes.
Mr Sirro could not, however, divulge into figures regarding the cases of bodaboda riders killings or tortures that have been reported.
Briefing reporters on operations that the police his zone have been carrying out, Mr Sirro said that bodaboda riders have the tendency of operating past midnight something that makes easy targets to robbers who usually opareta in the odd hours of the night.
“My advice to bodaboda operators is that it is better for them to end their business before midnight. What kind of a passenger do you expect after midnight if he is not a robber?” he asked.
During the briefing, Mr Sirro said that in their operations they have also arrested 30 motorbike taxi drivers who used the Dar Rapid Transit (Dart) infrastructure and 27 of them have already been taken to court.
“I insist that from now on anyone caught riding in the prohibited roads will be taken directly to court. This is because it seems that the fine imposed is too small to make them change their habit,” added Mr Sirro.
Speaking on the war on drugs, Commander Sirro told reporters that they were holding 257 suspects involved in the business. They have been arrested in the past one week.
During the operation 1,526 pellets of heroin, 112 bundles of khat and 247 rolls of marijuana as well as 372 litres of illicit brew were confiscated.
Also, Sh460 million was collected as fine in various road traffic offences between January 18 to February 23.
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